Gov 2.0 - Recent Updates

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Pia Waugh writes: 

In other open data news, we have been chatting to open data people in governments all around Australia, from Federal agencies and departments, State/Territory Government representatives and a number of Local Governments. We are pulling together with them something of an informal report on the state of open data in Australia at the moment, as there is a lot happening and a lot planned. Below is a bit of a taste of the good work happening around Australia at the moment, and kudos to the excellent work of all involved!

• National
  • Launch of the Updated Digital Economy paper which explicitly talks about data.gov.au, open data (including opening up the G-NAF spatial data set) and big data. See section 10 in the report.
  • Launch of new data.gov.au in July 2013
  • An Australian Linked Data Working Group was established
  • The February 2013 report on the state of open data in Australia by the Information Commissioner Open public sector information: from principles to practice
• New South Wales – launch of http://data.nsw.gov.au/ in June 2013 and draft NSW Government Open Data Policy consulted on in June 2013
• South Australia – launch of http://data.sa.gov.au/ in June 2013 and have been releasing an enormous amount of new and high value datasets
• Queensland – launch of http://data.qld.gov.au/ in February 2013 – they also have aschedule for release of data by all QLD Government Departments
• Victoria:
  • Launched http://www.data.vic.gov.au/ in 2010
  • Aug 2012 - release of the DataVic Access Policy and the Intellectual Property Policy
  • April 2013 - release of the DataVic Access Policy Standards and Guidelines
  • July 2013 - integration of the Spatial DataMart and Data.Vic completed with access to over 500 spatial data sources (previously restricted) - current total over 1000 data records
• Western Australia – new version of SLIP (New SLIP) in planning over coming 6 months
• Tasmania – have been working primarily on spatial data requirements for the state for the last year
• Australian Capital Territory – launched http://data.act.gov.au/ late last yeara:
• UPDATE: The ACT Government released their Open Data policy on GitHubhttp://t.co/sOjST8pk0S
• Community – GovHack 2013 ran in June with 130 projects and over 1000 participants in 8 cities nationally. Also recently was the Random Hacks of Kindness competition in Melbourne and Sydney City Data Slam.
• New Zealand – The NZ Government have created some excellent open data case studies that we highly recommend, including one where the release of traffic density data led to improved prediction of GDP growth and decline in the New Zealand economy.